The annual Community Interfaith Thanksgiving Service will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 26, at the First United Methodist Church, 305 E Anapamu St., Santa Barbara.

All are invited to gather together in gratitude for the local and global communities, with emphasis this year on gratitude for Earth and a call to exercise responsible care for Earth.

Three local youth will share their concerns about the climate crisis: Sarah Dent, 9th grader, Congregation B’nai B’rith; Isabella Bowman-Andreatta, 11th grader, Vedanta Society; and Briana Rodriguez, high school intern with Supervisor Das Williams, Girls, Inc.

Michael Kearney of Mindful Heart Programs will offer spiritual reflections.

A free-will offering will benefit the Wilderness Youth Project, a local nature-based mentoring program that takes participants to resource-rich locations in and around Santa Barbara to build naturalist skills and teach principles of conflict resolution, communication, and peacemaking.

The event is sponsored by the Greater Santa Barbara Area Clergy Association, which includes clergy and religious leaders from some 100 local faith communities.  Participants will include Chumash elder Art Cisneros and representatives of the Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Quaker, Unitarian, Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions, as well as the Interfaith Choir.

Light refreshments will be served in the church social hall immediately following the service. There is free parking in the church parking lot, entrance on Garden Street.

For more information, call 805-963-3579 or visit http://www.fumcsb.org.

— Jeanne Bacsi for First United Methodist Church.